San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-17
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

SoME OF the capital journals would
have hard lines OF 1t, were 1t not for JEFF
Davis letters.
The Rochester labor convention evil
IDENTIFY considered POwderly safer ex-
FOUNDER OF party policy for the great la
Dor party than Henry George.
WHITNEY will very, very probably
drive Admiral Luce out OF the navy.
Had the drive been at the other end The
navy could have endured 1t better.
CARTER HARRISON, escaping from the
hot water of Chicago bOOdleism, betakes
himself to the temperate fluids Of the
Hot Spring, in Washington territory.
JAY GOULD is a grandfather and the
old mans yacht is the scene OF much re-
joicing. The daughter -in-Iaw and the
grandson are both in clover.
The Philadelphia fruit and flour mis-
sion distributes ice among the homes of
the sick and poor. 1t has spent over
$1,000 this summer for that purpose.
The ballot box busters OF Washington
county have most formidable array of
counsel-Irelsnd, Hancock, Seth Shep-
ard, Searcy, Coke and Giddings. This
ought to insure scquital.
BExAR. Medina and Atascosa are about
the three dryest counties In Texas. In
nearly every other section Of the state
copions rains have fallen within the
past two weeks.
THE race for emigration In this coun-
try seems still to be between north
west and southwest. just now IL is
al Tol
fOrnia.
The court gOssips, who know more
than the court itself, affirm that Judge
Potter is writing an exhaustive opinion
to show why he grants stay OF proceed
iDgs in the Jake Sharp case.
The Thistle is now In American waters
and the observed of all observers. She
made splendid run over the briny,
and her owners and sailing master are
afraid Of nothing that has wings, except
the new Yankee volunteer.
Laredo is becomming very level-headed
under the steadying influences of her
smelteI. According to the Times of that
city, it took just 81 to restore the equi-
librium OF the city on last Monday.
THE New York Sun thinks thai In
race for president today, Blaine would
stand a fair show OF carrying Kentucky
against Cleveland. This is no evidence
that the Sun loves Blaine, only that he
hates Cleveland more.
GROVER telegraphed Vic on the coca
sion Of her jubilee some weeks since.
The return message has just been re-
oeived. Vic's mind moves slowly, or is
II the cables fault?
The new Gladstonian member for
Cheshire receives VAIN welcome from
the Irish liberals as he takes his seat in
the house. The beginning OF the end OF
Salisbury and Joe Chamberlainism has
come.
TIE "hOrrible suspicion" Of train
wrecking for purposes OF plumber does
not have q peg to hang itself upon in
this Chatsworth disaster, 1t WAS a case
OF burning bridge from prairie fires,
for which 1t seems very probable that
the section hands were responsible.
The S2O,OO0,OOO suspension OF Ives &
Co. was only preliminary deal for the
possession and control OF the Cincinnati,
Dayton and Hamilton railway. Who
will come out ahead is DOT yet certain,
but 1t is quite well settled that the hold
ers OF hypothecsted bonds will not cross
the wire as financial winners this heat.
WHEN the Yankee schoolmarm is
adorned with ball and chain and jailed
for exposing her kinky headed children
to the concentrating infldeDce Of white
children, then, and not till then, will
Georgia be happy, and the immortal
Glenn repose In the bosom Of his ador-
ing constituency.
For the three months ended July, 1887,
the Increase Of G. A. X. membership In
Ohio was 2,579. A small matter OF TO-
900 added members q year as the result
Of that battle flag order and Gov. For
sker,s protest. 1t is thus that the order
iivides and Cleveland lays the g. A. X.
,ut cold.
A cLAIRvOYANT at Akron, Ohio, jailed
or obtaining money under false pre-
enses Tin the regular line Of her bust
ess) sues the Justice and sheriff for false
IMPRISONMENT. The judge who granted
or a writ Of habeas corpus, held that
10 was following her regular aVocation
I'd that It was no offense against the
atutes to obtain work by false preten-
9. To have ruled otherwise would
We been a damper on general business
At present conducted.